, 1887-02-22
WINTER NOTES.
Common Occurrences In and About
the City.
Matters of Minor Importance
Hastily Gathered.

"ColutI ID COfuer.
Wsshington's birthday.
Sunday hours at the post Office to-day.
A grand ball last night. The Maennel-
Choir takes the cake.
Quite a number of Laramie's citizens
were in the city yesterday.
Travel is becoming quite brisk on the
Cheyenne & Northern railway.
The parade of the Maennerchor at
tracted much attention yesterday.
The G. A. r. ball this evening prom
ises to receive a large attendance.
There was a false alarm of fire sounded
shortly after l o'clock this morning.
There is a lull in business and social
matters Just at present; but better times
are coming.
The masquerade ball given last evening
by the Cheyenne Maennerchor wal a
grand success.
One hundred and fftv-fve years to day
since George Washington was born.
Cheyenne was a very small village then.
The Burlington & Missouri surveyors
are reported as being within twenty-five
miles Of this city and coming in this direc-
ton. I...- .ff
AS this is W~ashington's birthday, it
would not be out of place to ponder over
the little Ratchet. The story has great
significance. While we mean to include
all, the advice is directed mainly to our
esteemed contemporary, the Laramie
Sentinel, which has been slandering our
city.
We give considerable space this morn
ing to Yesterdays discussion in the house
of Representatives on the bill providing for
the repeal Of the and laws. The debate
is instructive as well as interesting. The
hitch between the two houses seems to be
the senate amendment providing that the
courts shall have final determination of
the question Of frauds in obtaining titles
to land, while the house bill leaves it with
the interior department.
A Madison (Wis.) dispatch to the
Philadelphia Daily Neus says There
will be a little stranger in the White
house next month" were the opening
words of a letter received a few days ago
by intimate friends of the family of one
of the members of President Cleveland's
cabinet. The source of this information
j~ustiies it as being classed as semi o official,
and puts the seal of confirmation upon
the recent stray rumors and reasons as
signed for the discontinuance of the
weekly receptions at the White house.
The LEADER office has now filed all
back orders for the marvellous library, and
for the accommodation Of subscribers a
hundred additional sets of the library have
been obtained from the publishers. Here
after orders will be filled at this office
Immediately upon receipt. The forty-6ve
books will be mailed, postpaid, to sub
subscribers for fifty cents in addition to
the subscription price. Non subscribers
can obtain the library for 81. so, postpaid.
Send remittances by postal note, money
order, draft or registered letter to Pub
Usher LEADER, Cheyenne, Wyo.
The following from the Chicago Times
proves the wanton slaughter of game IN
this section of the country: Two car
loads OF antelopes were distributed among
the commission houses on South Water
street yesterday afternoon. This has
been the greatest year for antelopes we
have ever known said one merchant.
Men who send the animals to US say that
the Rocky mountains haYe been swarm
ing with them all winter. Two hunters
who left Denver in November have struck
two herds of 10000 each, and they fol-
lowed them from range to range, until
over 900 of the dainty animals fell before
their rifles. Hunters up in the Woody
mountain district tell great stories Of ante
lope and buffalo hunts, but the bulk Of
the antelopes sold in this market come
from the Rockies.'u